Jessica Mantel, Jacob Leshno

September 10, 2017

Jessica Felice Mantel and Jacob Dov Leshno are to be married Sept. 10 by Rabbi Haskel Lookstein at Guastavino's, an event space in New York.

The bride, 32, is a market growth manager in New York for Sunrun, a provider of solar electricity to homeowners. She graduated from Washington University in St. Louis and received an M.B.A. from Columbia.

She is the daughter of Arthur S. Mantel of New York and the late Joan L. Mantel. The bride’s father is a partner in New York at Alter Mantel, a law firm specializing in commercial real estate. Her mother was a vice president, in Stamford, Conn., for GE Capital.

The groom, 35, is a professor at Columbia Business School, specializing in market design. He graduated from Tel Aviv University and received a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard.

He is a son of Dahlia Leshno and Moshe M. Leshno of Tel Aviv. The groom’s mother is a physician in Tel Aviv for Maccabi Healthcare. His father is a professor at Tel Aviv University and a clinical researcher at the Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases Institute at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center.

The couple met in August 2015 on OkCupid in New York, on the same night that a cousin of the bride, who is a friend of the groom, invited them both to a dinner in the attempt to set them up on a blind date.